Introduction

Recently, I came across a team that was breaking their perfectly healthy .NET application into nine smaller services because they heard the benefits of microservices at a tech conference. Six months later, they were paying for nine pipelines, two message brokers, and a tracing bill, and still shipping slower than they did with a big, single app.

This is the case with most of the other .NET teams in the market. They are rushing to microservices as if it were an offer that only a few can get. They just want to catch the trend and not pay attention to whether it is even worth it for them.

To be clear, I am not saying microservices in .NET are a bad choice.…